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This is a spoiler conscious review of The Lost Tribe of the Sith 1: Precipice

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The Lost Tribe of the Sith 1: Precipice

Knight Errant

The Lost Tribe of the Sith

The Fate of the Jedi

The Lost Tribe of the Sith series are a collections of e-book novellas that give the back story of the Sith found in The Fate of the Jedi series.  It really reminds me in novel type to Outbound Flight, but that was Timothy Zahn giving the back story for his own story.  This is John Jackson Miller giving back story thousands of years earlier in the time line for three different authors.  I can imagine that to be tough.  John Jackson Miller is a veteran of writer of Star Wars comics, and that comes out in these novels as he packs a lot of story in a small space.

Growing up on comics there was one aspect of this book that I enjoyed, and that was the written sound effects.  For comic fans words like bamf and snikt have become household words, and for fans of the 60’s batman series, and who isn’t, saw pow, thwack, all pop on the screen with each punch.  From my comic experience, I liked the fact that Miller wrote out thoom instead of just describing the sound.  It was a very nice touch. 

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